As all the members of recv_thread_args will be set before queue_work(), we don't need to use kzalloc() here. Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 08696f5..1656a60 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ static int nbd_reconnect_socket(struct nbd_device *nbd, unsigned long arg) if (!sock) return err; - args = kzalloc(sizeof(*args), GFP_KERNEL); + args = kmalloc(sizeof(*args), GFP_KERNEL); if (!args) { sockfd_put(sock); return -ENOMEM; @@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ static int nbd_start_device(struct nbd_device *nbd) for (i = 0; i < num_connections; i++) { struct recv_thread_args *args; - args = kzalloc(sizeof(*args), GFP_KERNEL); + args = kmalloc(sizeof(*args), GFP_KERNEL); if (!args) { sock_shutdown(nbd); return -ENOMEM; -- 1.8.3.1